restaurant opening

A new Asian-Italian fusion restaurant will open inside Westfield’s Southgate Mall on Saturday, in the former space of Cosimo’s Brick Oven, which closed in August.

Ziti, a new restaurant concept that will focus on Asian and Italian meals for lunch and dinner, will be open to the public Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and on Sunday from noon to 8 p.m.

The new restaurant is located near Dillard’s and Talbots in the mall on Tamiami Trail. Ziti will have a full-service bar that will offer happy hour specials and more than 20 signature martinis.

Cosimo’s Brick Oven staff said on Facebook that the new restaurant will reopen in early 2013 in a shopping plaza at5501 Palmer Crossing Circle, near Clark Road and Honore Avenue.

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